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Not to be confused with Koehl or Koller.
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See also: Kohler, Koehler, and Köler

Köhler is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Horst Köhler, real name of the singer Guildo Horn (born 1963)
  • Ilse Köhler, the maiden name of Ilse Koch, (1906–1967), Nazi war criminal
  • Achim Köhler, music producer and sound engineer, mostly known for his longtime collaboration with the German power metal band Primal Fear but he has been involved in the production process of many band's albums mostly in heavy metal genre
  • Alban Köhler (1874–1947), German radiologist. Born in Petsa (Thuringia), he discovered a rare foot disorder found in children which was named Köhler disease in his honour. He died in Niederselters
  • Antônio Köhler
  • August Köhler (1866–1948), microscopist and inventor of the Köhler illumination
  • Axel Köhler (born 1959), German countertenor and opera director. In 1994, he won the Handel Music Prize. Since 2009, he has been Artistic Director of the Halle Opera House
  • Bedřich Köhler (born 1985), Czech professional ice hockey player. He played with HC Zlín in the Czech Extraliga during the 2010–11 Czech Extraliga season
  • Benjamin Köhler (born 1980), football player
  • Christian Köhler (1809–1861), German painter
  • Dirk Köhler (1968–1994), German sport shooter who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics. He was born in Karlsruhe
  • Emmy Köhler (1858–1925), born 22 May 1858 in Stockholm, Sweden, dead 2 February 1925 in Fresta, Sweden was a Swedish hymnwriter and writer
  • Erich Köhler (1892–1958), German politician. President of the Bundestag, 7 September 1949–18 October 1950
  • Ernesto Köhler (1849–1907), flute player and composer
  • Eva Köhler (born 1947), First Lady of Germany 2004–2010
  • Franz Köhler (1901–1982), Austrian football manager and former player. He managed the Icelandic national team from 1953 to 1954
  • Georg Köhler (1900–1972), German international footballer
  • Georges J. F. Köhler (1946–1995), biologist and 1984 Nobel laureate in Medicine
  • Gundolf Köhler (1959–1980), right-wing extremist
  • Heinrich Köhler (1878–1949), German politician who served as the fifth and eighth State President of Baden and the eleventh Minister of Finance in the Weimar Republic
  • Hermann Köhler (born 1950), former sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres. He represented West Germany and competed for the club TV Wattenscheid
  • Hilding Köhler (1888–1982), professor of Meteorology at the University of Uppsala in Uppsala, Sweden who performed groundbreaking research in cloud physics
  • Horst Köhler (born 1943), President of Germany (2004–2010)
  • Imke Köhler
  • Johan Harmen Rudolf Köhler (1818–1873), Dutch colonial Major General
  • Johann David Köhler (1684–1755), library and information scientist
  • Juliane Köhler (born 1965), German actress
  • Jörn Köhler (born 1970), German Herpetologist. His main research focus is on tropical amphibians and reptiles, mainly in South America and Africa. He works for the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt and published in a number of scientific magazines
  • Jürgen Köhler (born 1946), former East German slalom canoeist who competed in the 1960s and 1970s. He won three medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with a gold (C-1 team: 1971), a silver (C-1 team: 1967) and a bronze (C-2 team: 1973)
  • Karoline Köhler
  • Koos Köhler (1905–1965), Dutch water polo player. He competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics, where the Dutch team shared fifth place. Köhler played all three matches, together with his cousin Sjaak, and scored seven goals
  • Kristina Schröder (née Köhler, born 1977), German politician
  • Louis Köhler (1820–1886), German composer
  • Manuel Köhler (born 1969), Austrian slalom canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s (decade). He won a bronze medal in the K-1 team event at the 1996 European Championships in Augsburg
  • Maria João Köhler, Portuguese tennis player
  • Michael Köhler (born 1944), East German luger who competed in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He won two medals in the men's doubles event at the FIL World Luge Championships with a silver in 1970 and a bronze in 1969
  • René Köhler, a non-existent conductor invented by William Barrington-Coupe as part of a fraud in which he passed off numerous plagiarised recordings of classical pianists as the work of his wife, Joyce Hatto
  • Rolf Köhler (1951–2007), German singer, musician and record producer
  • Siegfried Köhler (disambiguation)
  • Sven Köhler (born 1966), former German footballer who currently manages Chemnitzer FC
  • Thomas Köhler (born 1940), East German former luger who competed during the 1960s
  • Ulrich Köhler (1838–1903), German archaeologist
  • Walter Köhler (died 1989), Minister President of Baden, Germany during the Nazi regime
  • Wolfgang Köhler (1887–1967), psychologist

See also

  • Köhler's Medicinal Plants, a German medicinal guide published by Franz Eugen Köhler in 1887
  • Köhler theory, describes the process in which water vapor condenses and forms liquid cloud drops
  • Köhler disease, a rare bone disorder of the foot found in children between six and nine years of age. The disease typically affects boys, but it can also affect girls. It was first described in 1908 by Alban Köhler (1874–1947), a German radiologist
  • Köhler illumination, a method of specimen illumination used for transmitted and reflected light (trans- and epi-illuminated) optical microscopy
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